Eurasian jay During winter and especially when the ground is covered with snow, I like to feed the birds, and living in the countryside is a great opportunity to do so. Today the great spotted woodpecker showed up While I lived on the third floor in the city, I tried to feed the birds […]
Though there were joy and happiness and glimpses of good fortune in it, 2014 was not one of my best years. I got divorced, and I moved out of a nice flat in town and was supposed to move into another flat in the countryside, but got stuck in limbo in my daughters guest room, […]
Do you ever think about why you have the income you have? Are you happy with what you get? Are you able to save some and give away some and still have a good life and make ends meet? To be honest, I’ve struggled making ends meet most of my life. I was a single […]
Do you remember the time before computers, tablets, mobile phones and apps? How much time we in reality had on our hands back then? How we could have conversations with strangers at a bus stop or in a train, bus or airplane? People, and especially young people don’t talk to each other any more like […]
Since we started eating LCHF, we’ve eaten enormous amounts of cheese (full fat), cottage cheese, cream cheese, cream, butter, olive oil, coconut oil and eggs. Some of all the eggs we eat come from our trusty 4 white Italians, which my daughter saved from getting destroyed (the farmers actually just throw the living animals into […]
Not my picture So the other day I went to a pharmacy to buy some tissues and the lady at the counter grabbed a book and wanted to give it to me. When I told her that I wasn’t interested, she explained that it was not just advertising, but also contained a lot of important […]
We all know that many people behave really bad on the internet, there is nothing new in that, but I wonder why two so seemingly harmless subjects as eating habits and lifestyle can trigger as many nasty comments as they do. I’ve always been interested in food and consequently in health and therefore I read […]
We’ve probably all heard about Agent Orange, what it was used for and about its effects. What many of you may not know, and what I’ve only heard of yesterday, is that, because Round Up and other herbicides have given us super weeds, the Obama administration expects to approve corn and soybeans that have been […]
My mom had 2 sisters and 1 brother. Her brother drowned when he was young, so I never met him, and her older sister moved to Denmark when she met her husband and her younger sister moved about 600 kilometers to the south and got married there. They both got children. My uncle Helmut, whom […]
Oh, wow. Pretty much the same moment I promised myself to work less this year, I got hit by a huge workload. Normally I don’t mind working, but this time it’s seriously annoying. A customer sent me some pdf-files for translation, and normally the amount of text is something I could to in 3 days, […]
My writers block 